Gowrie Junction · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Gowrie Junction

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Public transport use has vanished in Gowrie Junction since 2011, leaving the area almost entirely reliant on cars. While working from home rose slightly to 7.4%, the vast majority of residents still rely on private vehicles for their daily travel.

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📍 Gowrie Junction, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home here owns a car, with only 0.5% of households lacking a vehicle, a figure well below the Queensland average. Most families have multiple cars, as 83.6% of homes own two or more vehicles.

0.5% ▼ -61.2%

Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.2%
  • 2016: 1.9%
  • 2021: 0.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Gowrie Junction, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 45%, followed by 3 vehicles (22%) and 4 or more (18%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is a drop of 3.8 percentage points since 2011. Most people drive themselves to work (73%), while the 7.4% who work from home is far below the national figure.

7.4% ▲ +30.4%

Lower than 53% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 5.7%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 7.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.8%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.

How people get to work

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In Gowrie Junction, Car (driver) is the majority at 87%; Worked at home is next at 9%.

Sources

  • Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Gowrie Junction [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL315038/gowrie-junction/topic/transport